Celebrated playwright Carlyle Brown gives voice to Williams’ complicated career, constrained by racism but groundbreaking for generations of Black performers. MinnPost’s journalists are out in the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Esteemed documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter is set to make her narrative feature debut with NOBODY: The Bert Williams Story, a biopic of the vaudeville performer of the same name. The news ...

Feb. 29, 2024 – 01:38 – Our Keeping Black History Alive series continues with honoring Bert Williams, the first Black actor to land a role on Broadway. Bert Williams was born in the Bahamas. At a ...

In the early 1890s a Black Bahamian immigrant named Bert Williams stepped on a California stage for the first time. He wore white gloves, a kinky-haired wig on his head and had burnt cork smeared on ...

Baltimore, MD – Morgan State University’s Department of Theatre Arts proudly presents “Williams and Walker,” a powerful historical drama chronicling the revolutionary story of America’s first Black ...

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